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Agenda for Class 08: Monday, October 25, 2010

Main Topics/Goals: How Do I Plan and Conduct Inquiry Lessons?

Activities

• What questions do YOU have about using "scientific inquiry" in your classrooms?
• The Coffee Can Investigation
  • Stage 3: Can we use our tools and Newton's Laws to Understand a the Coffee Can Force?
    • Discussion: What do we know about the Coffee Can Force and How do we know it?
• How Do I Capture Inquiry in a Lesson Plan?
  • Review of Lesson Planning
  • Writing a Lesson Plan that Supports Inquiry
    • Shared Lesson Plan
• Closing
  • Another useful resource: Planning and Facilitating Classroom Inquiry

Homework

• Due on Saturday:
  • Observe/Reflect Journal Entry #5: Reactions to Fried's Description of the Game of School
• Due next week:
  • Readings
    • Roe, Smith, & Ross: Classroom Management
      

      Classroom Management.pdf
      

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  • Post on URITK:
    • Finalize Unit Plan descriptors (Overview, Learning Performances, Concept Map, Description of Lesson Sequence)
    • Begin to write your plans for lessons 1-5.